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Video Professor Sues 100 Anonymous Critics

Techdirt is reporting that the Video Professor Company is suing 100 anonymous critics of their company. The Video Professor is known for their television ads hawking DVDs that teach you various skills like how to use your computer. Most of the complaints center around how their "free" product offering automagically signs you up for a subscription. Instead of addressing the concerns the Video Professor has decided to take the litigious route.

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  1. Re:Calling all lawyers by b1gk1tty · · Score: 3, Funny

    My Aunt got one of these video's once. She returned it after a couple of weeks... she could figure out how to put it into the computer. I didn't come with any instructions.

  2. Great! by kbob88 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anything to distract them from producing more of those really annoying TV ads! Hopefully the lawyers will suck up their entire marketing budget for the next few years!

    1. Re:Great! by Dionysus · · Score: 3, Funny

      You're this guy, aren't you?

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  3. I hope their lawyer . . . by rev_sanchez · · Score: 4, Funny

    got his or her legal education from a series of DVDs.

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    1. Re:I hope their lawyer . . . by GungaDan · · Score: 3, Funny

      I got mine at the Costco.

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  4. I wonder if by zappepcs · · Score: 4, Funny

    November's DVD of the month is "how to create your own legal pleadings" with Video Professor's MS-Office accessories training 'product' ?

  5. Please.... by m93 · · Score: 3, Funny



    don't try my product.

  6. Anybody smell a class action lawsuit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes.

    I predict the class will be awarded a voucher for a free credit report courtesy of freecreditreport.com.

  7. Re:Calling all lawyers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I didn't come with any instructions, either.

  8. Hey, Doctor... by XanC · · Score: 4, Funny

    My, uh, "friend" has this problem, see. What should I^H he do about it?

  9. Interesting... by Capt+James+McCarthy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Judge: "So who are you suing exactly?"
    Video Professor: "Anonymous."
    Judge: "Uh, clerk, who exactly is 'Anonymous?'"
    Clerk: "Well Your Honor, I read slashdot and the only 'Anonymous' I know are cowards."
    Video Professor: "They certainly are!"
    Judge: "Would 'Anonymous' please stand and be recognized by the court."
    One soul stands...
    Clerk: "Please sit down CowboyNeal."

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  10. Worse yet by British · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Video Professor isn't available in HD-DVD or Blu-Ray. I mean really, what's up with that?

  11. He needn't worry by mhollis · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Video Professor ought not to worry about his reputation. People who need his videos don't know how to get on the Internet to read the reviews in the first place.

    On his front page, he has a link on how to learn the Internet (2004!) for the people who are so confused that they actually used the Internet to find out how to learn the Internet. Of course he's prepared to show you the Internet of three years ago because the new, modern Internet might be too much for his clientèle to handle (sarcasm intended).

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  12. Re:Who needs these classes? by beckerist · · Score: 5, Funny

    oh...so THAT'S where that damned BOWFLEX came from!

  13. Re:The right to screw by tsm_sf · · Score: 3, Funny

    If there are suckers who don't bother to read the print and take the steps necessary to opt out, and they go around telling people that the company is engaged in fraud when they aren't, those people should be sued. It's libel to make false statements like that, and there really isn't anything else that can be done to put a stop to it.

    I'm simply swinging my fists and walking forward. If there are siblings who don't bother to get out of my way, and they go around telling mom that I'm hitting them, those people should be spanked.

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